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Pharmaceutical Sciences — PhD reading list.

The advanced references a doctoral scholar in Pharmaceutical Sciences works from, and what each one is for.

7Titles listed
4Worked right through
3–6 yrsProgramme length
12Coursework credits
The subject

Pharmaceutical Sciences as a research subject

ScopeDrug design and medicinal chemistry, formulation and drug delivery systems, pharmaceutical analysis and quality control, natural products, pharmacoinformatics, regulatory science and pharmacy practice.
Who can registerMPharm in any speciality, PharmD, MSc Chemistry or Biotechnology, BPharm through the fellowship route at NIPER and equivalent institutes.
How you get inEither the fellowship route — CSIR-UGC NET, ICMR, DBT-BET, DST-INSPIRE — straight to interview, or the institute entrance test, half research methodology and half pharmaceutical sciences.
CourseworkOne semester, at least 12 credits: research methodology and biostatistics, plus Research and Publication Ethics, before the research phase proper begins.
How this list is used

Reading for Pharmaceutical Sciences

Pharmaceutical sciences doctoral reading is organised by specialisation but almost everyone passes through Martin and Aulton. Martin supplies the physicochemical theory — solubility, kinetics, rheology, diffusion — that formulation work is defended on, and Aulton the dosage-form design and manufacture detail examiners expect for a formulation thesis. Remington is the broad reference kept for anything outside your own specialisation, and Foye is the medicinal chemistry text for synthesis and structure-activity work. Goodman and Gilman covers the pharmacology any thesis on a drug candidate has to state correctly, the excipients handbook is consulted formulation by formulation, and the Indian Pharmacopoeia is the monograph source Indian analytical chapters and CDSCO-facing work are written against.

Titles are tagged core reading — the ones scholars work right through — or reference, the ones they look things up in. Editions are given where the current edition is what you want to buy.

  1. Martin's Physical Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciencescore readingPatrick J. Sinko · Wolters Kluwer · 8th edition (2023)The physicochemical theory behind formulation — solubility, kinetics, rheology and diffusion, examined numerically.
  2. Aulton's Pharmaceutics: The Design and Manufacture of Medicinescore readingKevin M.G. Taylor, Michael E. Aulton (eds.) · Elsevier · 6th edition (2021)Dosage-form design and manufacture — the reference for unit operations, stability and delivery-system chapters.
  3. Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacycore readingAdeboye Adejare (ed.) · Academic Press / Elsevier · 23rd edition (2020)The broad reference consulted outside your own specialisation, from sterilisation to biotechnology products.
  4. Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistrycore readingVictoria F. Roche, S. William Zito, Thomas L. Lemke, David A. Williams · Wolters Kluwer · 8th edition (2019)Structure-activity relationships and drug metabolism — the medicinal chemistry backbone of synthesis and design work.
  5. Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of TherapeuticsreferenceLaurence L. Brunton, Björn C. Knollmann (eds.) · McGraw Hill · 14th edition (2023)The pharmacology authority for mechanism, kinetics and therapeutic claims made about a drug in the thesis.
  6. Handbook of Pharmaceutical ExcipientsreferencePaul J. Sheskey, Bruno C. Hancock, Gary P. Moss, David J. Goldfarb (eds.) · Pharmaceutical Press · 9th edition (2020)Monograph-by-monograph excipient data — functionality, concentration ranges and incompatibilities, used during formulation design.
  7. Indian PharmacopoeiareferenceIndian Pharmacopoeia Commission, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare · Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, Ghaziabad · 9th edition (2022)The official monograph and test-method source Indian analytical chapters and regulatory-facing work are written against.

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The two lists every scholar also needs

Whatever the subject, the coursework semester is examined on research methodology, biostatistics and publication ethics, and the bench work runs on a handful of protocol volumes. Both lists are kept separately so you are not buying them twice.

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Frequently asked

PhD Pharmaceutical Sciences — questions

Which books does a PhD scholar in Pharmaceutical Sciences read?

The 7 titles on this page, of which 4 are worked right through and the rest are kept as references. Most scholars own two or three and use the department copy for the others.

Who can register for a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences?

MPharm in any speciality, PharmD, MSc Chemistry or Biotechnology, BPharm through the fellowship route at NIPER and equivalent institutes.

What does a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences cover?

Drug design and medicinal chemistry, formulation and drug delivery systems, pharmaceutical analysis and quality control, natural products, pharmacoinformatics, regulatory science and pharmacy practice.

Is the coursework examined?

Yes. One semester of at least 12 credits, assessed before the research phase begins, covering research methodology, biostatistics and Research and Publication Ethics.

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